Here! TV enters the "House of Usher"
I have not seen this yet but wanted to give the David Decoteau film, "House of Usher" a shout out because here! TV finally sent me some images from the film which premiered on the .premium gay television network Friday as well as in theaters.
The movie is loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic short story, The Fall of the House of Usher. Here's a synopsis: Victor Reynolds (Michael Cardelle) receives a desperate letter from his childhood friend and first love, Roderick Usher (Frank Mentier). Roderick, a notorious recluse, has not left the grounds of his hilltop mansion in many years. He is in bad health and he needs Victor's love and care to survive. However, after a series of bizarre and spooky events, Victor realizes that both his friend and the house have a dark past that no one has lived to uncover.
And if that doesn't get your attention, the photo below will!
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This is going to suck. Your honor, may I site precedence?
Films of David DeCocteau
CREEPAZOIDS
SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA
DR. ALIEN
BEACH BABES FROM BEYOND
TEST TUBE TEENS FROM THE YEAR 2000
BIKINI GODDESSES
PETTICOAT PLANET
CURSE OF THE PUPPETMASTER
THE KILLER EYE
FINAL STAB
LEECHES!
KILLER BASH
WITCHES OF THE CARIBBEAN
BEASTLY BOYZ
GRIZZLY RAGE
Sadly, I could do on...
This movie DID suck! Too bad that Edgar Allan Poe's estate cannot sue for the grave damage the movie did to his classic gothic horror story. The script was absolute drivel, to call the acting "wooden" would be an insult to wood, and the production values were almost non-existent. The movie did not even provide good titillation--the "sex scenes" had NO sex (like every single movie by DeCocteau) and they were so poorly choreographed that they were simply silly, NOT sexy. Also, someone came up with the ridiculous idea to have the actors pull their underwear down partially in the back during the "sex" scenes while leaving the fronts fully pulled up--NO ONE gets frisky like that. I appreciate that the actors probably did not want to do frontal nudity--that's fine, but there are ways to stage a love scene, even with NO nudity (neither frontal nor rear), so that it looks convincing instead of stupid (it also wouldn't hurt to cast actors who had at least a little bit of chemistry between each other). Of course, the dumb "sex" scenes were the least of this film's problems. If I were an actor, director, producer, writer, etc. involved in this project, I would definitely keep it off my resume--it was a complete embarrassment!